Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
American Indians played a central role in the war known as the American Revolution. To them, however, the dispute between the colonists and England was peripheral. For American Indians the conflict was a war for American Indian independence, and whichever side they chose, they lost it. Mary Brant was a powerful influence among the Iroquois. She was a Mohawk, the leader of the society of all Iroquois matrons, and the widow of Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Her brother, Joseph Brant, is the bestknown American Indian warrior of the Revolution, yet she may have exerted even more influence in the confederacy than he did. She used her influence to keep the western tribes of Iroquois loyal to the English king, George Ⅲ. When the colonists won the war, she and her tribe had to abandon their lands and retreat to Canada. On the other side, Nancy Ward held positions of authority in the Cherokee nation. She had fought as a warrior in the war against the Creeks and as a reward for her heroism was made “Beloved Woman” of the tribe. This office made her chief of the women’s council and a member of the council of chiefs. She was friendly with the white settlers and supported the Patriots during the Revolution. Yet the Cherokees too lost their land.
21.What is the main point the author makes in the passage?
A.Siding with the English in the Revolution helped American Indians regain their land.
B.At the time of the Revolution the Superintendent of Indian Affairs had little power.
C.Regardless of whom they supported in the Revolution, American Indians lost their land.
D.The outcome of the Revolution was largely determined by American Indian women.
22.The word “it” in line 5 refers to ____.
A.side B.revolution
C.dispute D.independence
23.How did Ward gain her position of authority?
A.By bravery in battle.
B.By marriage to a chief.
C.By joining the confederacy.
D.By being born into a powerful family.
24.To which tribe did Nancy Ward belong?
A.Mohawk. B.Iroquois. C.Cherokee. D.Creek.
25.According to the passage, what did Mary Brant and Nancy Ward had in common?
A.Each was called “Beloved Woman” by her tribe.
B.Each influenced her tribe’s role in the American Revolution.
C.Each lost a brother in the American Revolution.
D.Each went to England after the American Revolution.
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Born in 1830 in rural Amherst, Massachusetts, Emily Dickinson spent her entire life in the household of her parents. Between 1858 and 1862, it was later discovered, she wrote like a person possessed, often producing a poem a day. It was also during this period that her life was transformed into the myth of Amherst. Withdrawing more and more, keeping to her room, sometimes even refusing to see visitors who called, she began to dress only in white—a habit that added to her reputation as an eccentric.
In their determination to read Dickinson’s life in terms of a traditional romantic plot, biographers have missed the unique pattern of her life—her struggle to create a female life not yet imagined by the culture in which she lived. Dickinson was not the innocent, lovelorn and emotionally fragile girl sentimentalized by the Dickinson myth and popularized by William Luce’s 1976 play, the Belle of Amherst. Her decision to shut the door on Amherst society in the 1850’s transformed her house into a kind of magical realm in which she was free to engage her poetic genius. Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affair, but rather a part of a more general pattern of renunciation through which she, in her quest for selfsovereignty, carried on an argument with the puritan fathers, attacking with wit and irony their cheerless Calvinist doctrine, their stern patriarchal God, and their rigid notions of “true womanhood”.
26.What’s the author’s main purpose in the passage?
A.To interpret Emily Dickinson’s eccentric behavior.
B.To promote the popular myth of Emily Dickinson.
C.To discuss Emily Dickinson’s failed love affair.
D.To describe the religious climate in Emily Dickinson’s time.
27.Which of the following is not mentioned as being one of Emily Dickinson’s eccentricities?
A.Refusing to eat. B.Wearing only white.
C.Avoiding visitors. D.Staying in her room.
28.According to the passage, biographers of Emily Dickinson have traditionally ____.
A.criticized most of her poems
B.ignored her innocence and emotional fragility
C.seen her life in romantic terms
D.blaming her parents for restricting her activities
29.The author implies that many people attribute Emily Dickinson’s seclusion to ____.
A.physical illness B.a failed love affair
C.religious fervor D.her dislike of people
30.It can be inferred from the passage that Emily Dickinson lived in a society that was characterized by ____.
A.strong Puritan beliefs
B.equality of men and women
C.the encouragement of nonconformity
D.the appreciation of poetic creativity
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
The railroad industry could not have grown as large as it did without steel. The first rails were made of iron. But iron rails were not strong enough to support heavy trains running at high speeds. Railroad executives wanted to replace them with steel rails because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer. Before the 1870’s, however, steel was too expensive to be widely used. It was made by a slow and expensive process of heating, stirring and reheating iron ore.
Then the inventor Henry Bessemer discovered that directing a blast of air at melted iron in a furnace would burn out the impurities that made the iron brittle. As the air shot through the furnace, the bubbling metal would erupt in showers of sparks. When the fire cooled, the metal had been changed, or converted to steel. The Bessemer converter made possible the mass production of steel. Now three to five tons of iron could be changed into steel in a matter of minutes.
Just when the demand for more and more steel developed, prospectors discovered huge new deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range, a 120long region in Minnesota near Lake Superior. The Mesabi deposits were so near the surface that they could be mined with steam shovels.
Barges and steamers carried the iron ore through Lake Superior to depots on the southern shores of Lake Michigan and Lake Erie. With dizzying speed Gary, Indiana, and Toledo, Youngstown, and Cleveland, Ohio, became major steelmanufacturing centers. Pittsburgh was the greatest steel city of all.
Steel was the basic building material of the industrial age. Production skyrocketed from seventyseven thousand tons in 1870 to over eleven million tons in 1900.
31.According to the passage, the railroad industry preferred steel to iron because steel was ____.
A.cheaper and more plentiful
B.lighter and easier to mold
C.cleaner and easier to mine
D.stronger and more durable
32.According to the passage, how did Bessemer method make the mass production of steel possible?
A.It directed air at melted iron in a furnace, removing all impurities.
B.It slowly heated iron ore then stirred it and heated it again.
C.It changed iron ore into iron which was a substitute for steel.
D.It could quickly find deposits of iron ore under the ground.
33.According to the passage, where were large deposits of iron uncovered?
A.In Pittsburgh. B.In the Mesabi Range.
C.Near Lake Michigan.D.Near Lake Erie.
34.The words “Barges and steamers” could best be replaced by which of the following?
A.Trains.B.Planes.C.Boats.D.Trucks.
35.It can be inferred from the passage that the mass production of steel caused ____.
A.a decline in the railroad industry
B.a revolution in the industrial world
C.an increase in the price of steel
D.a feeling of discontent among steel workers
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:
There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statistical methods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses—all of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability.
Descripitive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height, intelligence, or grand level—variables that are characterized by an underlying continuum—or the data may represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process of summarization or reduction before they are comprehensible. Descriptive statistics is a tool for describing or summarizing or reducing to comprehensible from the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.
Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This
general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make prediction using a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes
to determine of the proportion of children in a large school system who come to school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary
and inefficient to question each child; the proportion for the entire district could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children. Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of the population.
36.With what is the passage mainly concerned?
A.The drawbacks of descriptive and inferential statistics.
B.Applications of inferential statistics.
C.The development and use of statistics.
D.How to use descriptive statistics.
37.Why does the author mention the “mother” and “father” in the first paragraph?
A.To point out that parents can teach their children statistics.
B.To introduce inferential statistics.
C.To explain that there are different kinds of variables.
D.To present the background of statistics in a humorous and understandable way.
38.Which of the following is NOT given as an example of qualitative variable?
A.Gender. B.Height.
C.College major. D.Type of personality.
39.Which of the following statements about descriptive statistics is best supported by the passage?
A.It simplifies unwieldy masses of data.
B.It leads to increased variability.
C.It solves all numerical problems.
D.It changes qualitative variables to quantitative variables.
40.According to the passage which is the purpose of examining a sample of a population?
A.To compare different groups.
B.To predict characteristics of the entire population.
C.To consider all the quantitative variables.
D.To tabulate collections of data.
Part Ⅲ Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)
Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D). Choose the one answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the answer sheet with a single line through the centre.
41.He is among those lucky students who have won ____ to firstrate university.
A.permission B.admittance C.profession D.admission
42.Mathematics as well as other subjects ____ a science.
A.was B.is C.are D.belong to
43.We should ____ our human and material resources if we are to succeed
in the joint venture.
A.pour B.plunge C.pool D.pick
44.I would appreciate ____ it a secret.
A.your keeping B.that you keep
C.you to keep D.that you will keep
45.Some old people don’t like pop songs because they can’t ____ so much noise.
A.resist B.tolerate C.sustain D.undergo
46.I’ll lend you my cassette recorder ____ I’ve done with it.
A.every time B.the moment C.until D.lest
47.I ____ several interesting facts about Mexico in that book.
A.came to B. came into C.came over D.came across
48.The seeingeye dog was the blind man’s ____ companion.
A.continual B.consistent C.constant D.continuous
49.Getting up is an everyday ____.
A.happening B.occurrence C.incident D.event
50.We are not ____ to veto(否定) our own proposals.
A.likely B.possible C.probable D.potential
51.This is ____ the first time you have been late.
A.under no circumstances B.on no account
C.by no means D.for no reason
52.Can you ____ me on the phone by the sound of my voice?
A.make up B.make over C.make out D.make off
53.The mechanic examined the car engine ____ but could find nothing wrong with it.
A.throughout B.exactly C.thoroughly D.altogether
54.Mr. Smith used to work the night ____ in a power plant.
A.stretch B.shift C.time D.turn
55.I broke my relationship with Anne because she always found ____.
A.error B.mistake C.flaw D.fault
56.He failed again in the driving test. I don’t know why ____ he was so nervous.
A.in the earth B.on the earth
C.in earth D.on earth
57.Sally’s score on the exam is the lowest in the class. She ____ hard.
A.should have studied B.must have to study
C.must have studied D.needn’t have studied
58.If you ____ in taking this attitude, we’ll have to ask you to leave.
A.insist B.keep C.resist D.persist
59.In Britain, the best season of the year is probably ____ spring.
A.latter B.later C.last D.late
60.____ he was a regular customer, the boss allowed 10% discount off the prices of the goods.
A.Giving B.Given that
C.Giving that D.To give that
61.Like the old, ____ respected in our country.
A.the female is B.a female is
C.the female are D.female is
62.It was difficult to tell what her ____ to the news could be.
A.impression B.comment C.reaction D.opinion
63.American women were ____ the right to vote until 1920.
A.ignored B.denied C.rejected D.refused
64.No one can behave ____, completely regardless of social conventions.
A.at will B.at random C.on purpose D.on easy
65.____ the advances of science, the discomforts of old age will no doubt always be with us.
A.As for B.Except C.In spite D.Despite
66.In his poems, he compared his little daughter ____ a flower.
A.by B.to C.for D.as
67.All flights ____ because of the heavy storm, we decided to take the train.
A.having canceled B.being canceled
C.having been canceled D.canceled
68.Mother hopes her son will ____ doing anything rash.
A.keep from B.avoid from C.ask from D.protect from
69.This story is not real; it is ____.
A.imaginative B.imaginary
C.imaginable D.imagining
70.He slept in the ____ of the trees on such a hot day.
A.shade B.shelter C.shadow D.shield
Part Ⅳ Translation
端午节，又叫龙舟节，是为了纪念爱国诗人屈原。屈原是一位忠诚和受人敬仰的大臣(minister),他给国家带来了和平和繁荣。但最后因为受到诽谤(vilify)而最终投河自尽。人们撑船到他自尽的地方，抛下粽子，希望鱼儿吃粽子，不要吃屈原的身躯。几千年来，端午节的特色在于吃粽子(glutinous dumplings)和赛龙舟，尤其是在一些河湖密布的南方省份。
Part Ⅴ Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part, you’re allowed thirty minutes to write a
composition on the topic “Reading Selectively or Extensively?” you should write at least 100 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1.有人认为读书要有选择;
2.有人认为应当博览群书;
3.我的看法。
答案
Part Ⅱ
1短文大意
文章主要描述了美国印第安人在美国革命中所面临的矛盾，无论印第安人支持哪一方——殖民主义者还是英格兰，他们都将失去自己的领土与独立。本文进一步以Mary Brant和Nancy Ward为例阐述了该观点。
21.答案C。
【试题分析】 此题考查对作者写作目的理解。
【详细解答】 文章第3句就阐明了作者的观点：无论印第安人支持哪一方——殖民主义者还是英格兰，他们都将失去自己的领土与独立。后面的部分都是举例来证明观点，所以C正确。A中印第安人与英格兰并肩作战而获得了他们的土地，与文章内容不符;B和D都不是文章的主要观点。
22.答案D。
【试题分析】 此题考查学生根据上下文判断具体词义的能力。
【详细解答】 根据句子的意思，it指前面提到的印第安人的独立，所以D项正确。A.方;B.革命;C.分歧;D.独立。
23.答案A。
【试题分析】 此题为根据上下文推理题。
【详细解答】 文章倒数第四句指出，她在与Creeks人作战的过程中表现勇敢，做为报偿，部落给了她很高的职位。B.通过嫁给部落首领，C.通过加入南部联邦，与文章内容不符。D.通过出生于有影响的家庭，文中未提到，所以也不正确。
24.答案C。
【试题分析】 此题为语义推理题。
【详细解答】 文章倒数第三句指出Nancy Ward是Cherokee部落的当权者。据此可知，她属于该部落。所以C项正确。而A、B和D都只在介绍Mary Brant中提到过。
25.答案B。
【试题分析】 此题为根据上下文推理题。
【详细解答】 A.两人都被她们的部落称为“Beloved Woman”，而文中只有Nancy Ward有此称号;B.两人对她们部落在美国革命中作用影响很大，根据上下文我们可知B正确，而C和D文中都没有提到，所以C和D均不正确。
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短文大意
本文是对美国著名女诗人Emily Dickinson的介绍。在1858到1862年间，Emily Dickinson创作了大量的诗歌，与此同时她开始关门闭户，不与他人往来的生活。作者从另一个侧面解释Emily Dickinson隐居的原因并非她传统和浪漫的一面，而是反对清教徒的清规戒律。
26.答案A。
【试题分析】 此题考查对作者写与目的的理解。
【详细解答】 作者在本文中解释了Emily Dickinson关门闭户，不与他人往来的原因，所以A项正确。B进一步宣扬Emily Dickinson生活之谜，与A相反。C讨论Emily Dickinson失败婚恋的原因，不全面。D描述了Emily Dickinson时代的宗教气候，也非作者意图。
27.答案A。
【试题分析】 此题为语义辨析题，要求判断正误。
【详细解答】 “keeping to her room, sometimes even refusing to see visitors whocalled, she began to dress only in white…”此句表明拒绝吃东西不是她的怪僻之一。而B、C和D在上句均有涉及，所以正确答案为A。
28.答案C。
【试题分析】 此题为特定信息查寻题。
【详细解答】 文章指出，Dickinson的自传作家只看到她传统和浪漫的一面(…in terms of a traditional romantic plot)。所以C选项正确。A.批评她大部分的诗歌，与文章内容不符。B.忽略了她的纯真和感情上的脆弱，正好相反。D.谴责其父母限制她的活动，文中未提到。
29.答案B。
【试题分析】 此题为语义推理题。
【详细解答】 Her seclusion was not the result of a failed love affair. 此句暗含许多人认为她独处的原因是失恋。所以B选项正确。A.身体疾病，文中未提到;B.失恋;C.宗教上的虔诚，而Emily Dickinson反对清教的清规戒律;D.她讨厌别人也不正确。
30.答案A。
【试题分析】 此题为语义推理题。
【详细解答】 文章最后指出她隐居的原因之一是反对清教徒的清规戒律。据此可判断，A为正确答案。B.男女平等正与清教徒的教义相背。C.鼓励人们不要顺从传统也与清教徒的教义相背。D.欣赏诗歌创作，文中未提到。
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短文大意
本文简介了钢的发展史，最初的车轨是铁制的，为了支持重型高速列车的运行，人们发展了强度更大的钢来取代铁。后来Henry Bessemer发明了转炉炼钢法，使钢的生产向大规模化发展。同时丰富铁矿的发现，使钢产业迅速发展，也形成了许多钢生产中心，钢也成为了工业时代的一种基本材料。
31.答案D。
【试题分析】 此题为语义测试题。
【详细解答】 “because steel was ten or fifteen times stronger and lasted twenty times longer”。此句表明人们以钢代铁的理由是钢的强度大些，更耐用，所以D选项正确。A.更便宜更丰富;B.更轻且易于铸造;C.干净易于开采;D.强度更大，更耐用。
32.答案A。
【试题分析】 此题为语义推理题。
【详细解答】 文中第二段开头提到Henry Bessemer在炼铁时发现给熔炉鼓入空气，除去杂质，铁就会变成钢。这使钢的生产向大规模化发展。所以正确答案为A。B.缓慢加热铁矿，搅拌后再次加热，文中未提到。C.该方法将铁矿转变为可替代钢的铁，与文章含义不符。D.该方法能迅速发现地下铁矿，这与Bessemer的发明无关。
33.答案B。
【试题分析】 此题为特定信息查寻题。
【详细解答】 根据第三段中的Prospectors discovered huge new deposits of iron ore in the Mesabi Range.,勘探者在Meabi Range发现了丰富的铁矿，所以正确答案为B。
34.答案C。
【试题分析】 此题为语义测试题。
【详细解答】 barge意为“驳船”，steamer意为“轮船”，因为boat是船的总称，所以两者均可称为boat，所以正确答案为C。A.火车，B.飞机，D.卡车
35.答案B。
【试题分析】 此题为语义推理题。
【详细解答】 文章最后指出，钢是工业时代的基本建筑材料，据此可以推断，钢的大量生产将会带来一场工业革命，所以正确答案为B。A.铁路产业的下降，B.工业界的革命，C.钢价格的上扬，D.钢铁工人的不满情绪。
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短文大意
本文是关于统计学发展与应用的介绍。两种不同的用途产生了统计学的两个不同分支：描述统计学和推理统计学。描述统计学包括数据集合的制表、描述和形容。它可以将宏大的数据简化成一种可以理解的形式。推理统计学则是通过抽样分析对事物进行预测。
36.答案C。
【试题分析】 此题考查对作者写作目的的理解。
【详细解答】 本文介绍了统计学的发展与应用，并分类进行具体说明，所以答案C正确。A.描述统计学和推理统计学的缺陷，文中未提及;B.推理统计学的应用，不全面;C.统计学的发展与应用，正确;C.如何运用描述统计学也不全面。
37.答案D。
【试题分析】 此题为语义推理题。
【详细解答】 第一段中的mother和father说明了统计学的起源，同时表现出作者的幽默，所以正确答案为D。A.指出父母可以教孩子统计学，完全不合文意。B.介绍推理统计，不完全。C.说明有两种不同变量，不确切。
38.答案B。
【试题分析】 此题为语义辨析题，要求判断正误。
【详细解答】 第二段提及了qualitative variables such as sex, college major, or personality types可见性质变量不包括height，所以正确答案为B。
39.答案A。
【试题分析】 此题为语义测试题。
【详细解答】 第二段末指出，描述统计学可以将宏大的数据简化成一种可以理解的形式(reducing to comprehensible from the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data)。A.简化大量数据，B.导致变量的增加;C.解决所有数字的问题，太绝对。D.将性质变量变为数量变量，文中未提到。所以正确答案为A。
40.答案B。
【试题分析】 此题为语义测试题。
【详细解答】 文章最后一句指出，对人进行抽样统计的目的在于通过抽样调查所获得的结果来预测，估计人的总体特点(…to predict or estimate characteristics of a population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of the population)。所以正确的答案为B。
Part Ⅲ
41.答案D。
【参考译文】 他是那些能幸运地进入一流大学的学生中的一员。
【试题分析】 此题既是近义词辨析题，又是形近词辨析题。
【词义辨析】 admission(入会，入学，入场)许可：Free admission.免票入场。admission常与介词to搭配使用。A.permission允许，同意，一般用于give sb. permission to do sth.允许某人做某事，不能与表示机构的词搭配使用。B.admittance承认;C.profession职业;D.表示入学只能用admission to a school，此为固定搭配。
42.答案B。
【参考译文】 数学和其它科目一样是一门科学。
【试题分析】 此题为语法题，考主谓一致和时态。
【详细解答】 此题主语是Mathematics，学科做主语时，是表示单数的意义的词，故只能在A、B两项中选择，而A时态不对，D.belong to属于。
43.答案C。
【参考译文】 如果我们想办成功合资企业的话，就必须集中我们的人力和物力资源以共分享。
【试题分析】 此为形近词辨析题。
【词义辨析】 pool聚集在一起：Since none of us can afford a car, let’s pool our money to buy one for all use.既然，我们谁都买不起一辆车，不如合资买一辆车供大家使用。A.pour倾注，倾倒：It was pouring outside.外面大雨倾盆。B.plunge投入：He plunged into the water and saved the girl.他跳入水中救起了女孩子。D.pick摘取：pick a flower摘一朵花。
44.答案A。
【参考译文】 如果你能保守秘密我将十分感激。
【试题分析】 此题为语法题，考动词搭配。
【详细解答】 appreciate后面一般不接宾语从句，而用动名词形式，所以A为正确答案。注意：appreciate的用法同mind，类似的词还有consider。
45.答案B。
【参考译文】 一些老人不喜欢流行音乐，因为他们受不了如此吵闹的声音。
【试题分析】 此题为词义辨析题，根据句意来判断。
【词义辨析】 tolerate忍受，容忍：I cannot tolerate your bad manners any longer.我再也受不了你恶劣的态度;A.resist抵抗，抵制：resist the temptation抵抗诱惑;C.sustain支撑;维持：sustain a family赡养家庭;D.undergo经历：undergo great troubles经历了艰辛。老人不喜欢流行音乐主要是他们从心理上接受不了这种音乐方式，是一种态度取向问题，而不是身体上是否承受或遭受得起的问题。因而B为最佳答案。
46.答案B。
【参考译文】 我一用完盒式录音机，就把它借给你。
【试题分析】 此题为语法题，考学生对连词的掌握。
【详细解答】 the moment一……就，相当于as soon as ，如：He telephoned me the moment he got the result of the test.他一得到考试结果的消息就马上打电话给我。A.every time每一次，用在此处不能充当连词的作用，如改为whenever则在语法上可以。C.until直到，如用在肯定句中，主句的谓语动词不能是短暂性动词。而“lend”为一次性动作，所以C也不符合。D.lest万一，用在此处不符合句意，而且lest引导的从句，从句要用虚拟语气。
47.答案D。
【参考译文】 在那本书中我发现一些关于墨西哥的有趣的事实。
【试题分析】 此为“come”动词词组辨析题。
【词义辨析】 come across(偶然)遇见;(偶然)发现：come across a friend in the street在街上遇到一个朋友。A.come to达到;达成：come to a conclusion得出结论。B.come into进入;继承;得到： come into power当权;come into a fortune继承一笔财产。C.come over顺便来访;(感觉，影响)支配，攫住：A fit of dizziness came over him.他忽然感到一阵晕眩。
48 .答案C。
【参考译文】 这只引路狗是这位盲人的忠实伙伴。
【试题分析】 此题为近义词兼形近词辨析题。
【词义辨析】 constant永恒的，忠实的：a constant believer in materialism坚信唯物主义的人。A.continual连续的;不间断的：Pay continual visits to the library.常去图书馆。B.consistent(人，行为)一致的;经常的;一贯的。a consistent policy一贯的政策。D.continuous持续不断的：continuous development不断的发展。从题意中可看出“companion(伴侣)”是“忠实的”。
49.答案B。
【参考译文】 起床是天天都发生的事。
【试题分析】 此题为近义词辨析题。
【词义辨析】 occurrence事件，事情，可指意外或计划中的事情，也可指普通家庭中的 事情。A.happening往往指偶然或未能预见而发生的事情、事件。C.incident常指附随于重要事件的事件，尤其指导致纷争的冲突事端。D.event尤指重大事件。“getting up ”不能算是重大事件，也非冲突性的事端，更不是偶然发生的，故B为正确选项。
50.答案A。
【参考译文】 我们有可能否定自己的提议。
【试题分析】 此题为近义词辨析题，更主要是考搭配和句型。
【词义辨析】 likely可能的：He is likely to get the job.他有可能得到这份工作。B、C均表示可能的，但不能以人为主语，而只能用于It is possible/probable to do…结构中。D.potential潜在的，常用作定语：potential market潜在的市场。
Part Ⅳ
参考译文：
The Duanwu Festival, also called the DragonBoat Festival, is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was aloyal and highly esteemed minister, who brought peace and prosperity to thestate but ended up drowning himself in a river as a result of being vilified.People got to the spot by boat and cast glutinous dumplings into the water,hoping that the fishes ate the dumplings instead of Qu Yuan’s body. Forthousands of years, the festival has been marked by glutinous dumplings anddragon boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are manyrivers and lakes.
Part Ⅴ
写作指导
这是一篇议论文，要求照提纲要求来展开论述。内容涉及到阅读的两种途径，一种是选择性阅读，另一种是博览群书，要求学生分别阐述存在两种不同读书态度的原因 ，也即两种途径各自的优势或不足之处，并在此基础上，阐明自己的观点。在范文中，先借读书有益引入话题，指出存在两种不同的态度。第二段先介绍支持第一种态度人的观点，通过“for one thing”和“for another”把两点原因紧密联系起来。第三段再介绍第二种读书途径的必要性和长处。最后以“In my opinion”引出作者自己的看法。此时作者采取折衷态度，强调要博览选择后的好书，使自己立于不败之地。
Sample Writing
Reading Selectively or Extensively?
Now, it is generally accepted that reading is very important. But when it comes to how to read, there has sprung up a heated discussion as to whether we should read selectively or extensively.
Those who are in favor of the idea of reading selectively believe that it is not how much one reads but what he reads that really counts. For one thing, living
in an age when much time has to be taken by work and other activities, people are unable to find enough time to read extensively even if they intend to. For an
other, some books are harmful and therefore the choice of books can never be overlooked.
However, those who insist on reading extensively argue that it is through reading extensively that we obtain most of our knowledge. Now branches of knowledge
diverge into each other rather than isolated from each other. Only when one goes
beyond his own field and read widely can he really make remarkable achievements
in his study. In addition, the most valuable gifts bestowed by reading extensively are experience, broad view and wisdom.
In my opinion, we should read both selectively and extensively. That is to say
, upon reading, we have to first distinguish good books from indecent ones. But
to the former, there is no such things as too many in reading.